Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen sold the head seat at Tongtian’s sermon for ten Acquired Spirit Treasures and three Innate Spirit Treasures, then took a seat at the back. As Tongtian arrived to begin preaching, Mu Chen realized three people had marked him as a target, while Daoist Duobao noticed that the head seat’s occupant had changed.

• Mu Chen sold the head seat to a rat spirit and moved to the back of the gathering.
• Mu Chen recognized the three Innate Spirit Treasures he had received as the Immortal-Suppressing Ding, Myriad Things Brush, and Immortal-Ending Spear.
• Mu Chen sensed three hostile gazes and decided to wait for Tongtian’s sermon before dealing with the danger outside the island.
• Tongtian arrived and sat cross-legged above the platform as the gathered disciples bowed in reverence.
• Daoist Duobao noticed that the rat spirit occupied the head seat where he had expected Fellow Daoist Wang Zha.

Cult Leader Tongtian preached the teachings of the Jie Sect for three hundred years, and Mu Chen appeared to remain in Dao enlightenment longer than anyone else. The chapter left Mu Chen waking from a nap and claiming he had been merging with the Dao of heaven and earth, stunning the gathering.

• Mu Chen hid beneath his Heaven-Deceiving Cloak as Tongtian surveyed the listeners, and Tongtian's gaze passed over him.
• Tongtian began preaching the Jie Sect's teachings, and Mu Chen settled down to listen.
• After three hundred years, Tongtian ended the lecture, and most listeners awoke while more than a dozen remained immersed in Dao enlightenment.
• Zhao Gongming awoke with his cultivation greatly advanced, while Daoist Duobao noticed that Mu Chen was still asleep and admired his apparent talent.
• Tongtian called for Mu Chen to awaken, but Mu Chen snored until a bubble on his nose burst.
• Mu Chen woke angrily and claimed he had been merging with the Dao of heaven and earth, leaving everyone speechless.

Mu Chen accidentally slept through Tongtian’s sermon, advanced rapidly, and fled Penglai Immortal Island after realizing he had offended the Sage. Tongtian discovered that Mu Chen faced a great tribulation, while someone blocked Mu Chen’s path just outside the island.

• Mu Chen’s outburst during Tongtian’s sermon stunned the listeners, and Tongtian left after calling him a bastard.
• Daoist Duobao announced that fifteen people, including Zhao Gongming, had passed the assessment, while Mu Chen realized his true body had advanced to the perfected middle stage of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Mu Chen left Penglai Immortal Island, and Daoist Duobao told Tongtian about Mu Chen’s earlier auction of the frontmost seat.
• Tongtian questioned whether his sermon had been dull, then divined that Mu Chen was about to face a great tribulation.
• Someone blocked Mu Chen’s way a hundred thousand li from Penglai Immortal Island.

Mu Chen was confronted by three Mystic Immortal demons who demanded his Innate Spirit Treasures, then found himself pursued by a horde after they revealed what he carried. He fled while threatening to return with a Daluo Golden Immortal.

• The Earth-Show Evil Demon Tiger Venerable, Heaven-Show Earth-Show Demon Shadow, and Water-Show Turtle God demanded that Mu Chen hand over his treasures.
• Mu Chen used the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul-Scattering Gourd to trap the three demons and prepared to escape.
• The tiger spirit told the arriving sermon attendees that Mu Chen carried three Innate Spirit Treasures, provoking them to attack.
• Mu Chen put away the gourd, fled from the charging demons, and threatened to return with a Daluo Golden Immortal.

Mu Chen fled across the Primordial World while a pack of demon beasts chased him for his Innate Spirit Treasures and divine abilities. Trapped at a waterfall with his magical power spent, he spotted Xiao Shi and shouted for help.

• Mu Chen ran from the demon beasts, who laughed at his threat and pursued him for his three Innate Spirit Treasures.
• Mu Chen used Shrinking the Earth into Inches to pull ahead, but learning that he knew the divine ability only made the demon beasts chase harder.
• After days of fleeing, Mu Chen found himself far from the Cloud Sea Grand Formation and running low on magical power.
• Mu Chen refused the system's suggestion to surrender his treasures and continued running until he was cornered at a waterfall.
• The eagle demon demanded Mu Chen hand over the Innate Spirit Treasures, and Mu Chen called out to Xiao Shi for rescue when he saw him drift by on a red cloud.

The Long-Armed Ape, Xiao Shi, saved Mu Chen from a horde of demons and captured three fleeing spirits. He asked Mu Chen how he knew his nickname, leaving Mu Chen frozen before he could answer.

• Xiao Shi heard Mu Chen calling for help and recognized a strange familiarity, so he rushed to save him.
• Xiao Shi revealed his overwhelming power and used the True God Lightning Control Method to kill or wound more than half the demons.
• Mu Chen pointed out a tiger spirit, an eagle spirit, and a turtle demon trying to escape, and Xiao Shi captured all three.
• Xiao Shi asked Mu Chen how he knew his nickname, and Mu Chen froze before answering.

Mu Chen returned to the Cloud Sea Grand Formation with the Long-Armed Ape and his three captured demons, concealing that his clone had posed as Wang Zha. The Long-Armed Ape then asked Mu Chen for guidance against Daoist Lu Ya, who had been slaughtering mortals.

• Mu Chen claimed to be Wang Zha, Mu Chen’s foremost disciple, and convinced the Long-Armed Ape to take him back to his master.
• Mu Chen and Xiao Shi brought three unconscious demons along as they traveled on the red cloud toward the South Sea.
• Mu Chen’s clone merged into his true body, and he told Xiao Shi that Wang Zha had gone into seclusion.
• Mu Chen praised Xiao Shi and urged him to support Wang Zha in the future.
• Xiao Shi explained that he had fought Daoist Lu Ya after seeing him torture and slaughter mortals, but had come to Mu Chen for guidance after years of losing ground.

Mu Chen armed the Long-Armed Ape with powerful divine abilities and treasures so he could defeat Lu Ya, then sent him to seek out Demon Master Kunpeng. As Mu Chen prepared to enter seclusion, Prime Minister Turtle called to him from beyond the sea of clouds.

• Mu Chen recalled Lu Ya’s connection to Kunpeng and grew wary that Kunpeng might be watching him.
• The Long-Armed Ape admitted that Lu Ya’s divine abilities, Sun True Fire, and treasures had made him difficult to defeat.
• Mu Chen passed the Long-Armed Ape Fiery Golden Eyes, Body-Protecting Fire God Art, Optimus Prime, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Arts, and a drop of the Origin of Water.
• Mu Chen made the Long-Armed Ape his second disciple and told him to defeat Lu Ya and find out where Kunpeng was.
• The Long-Armed Ape rode away on a red cloud to master his new abilities before challenging Lu Ya.
• Mu Chen prepared to enter seclusion, and Prime Minister Turtle called to him from beyond the sea of clouds.

Mu Chen agreed to establish the Endless Sea as a named Dao sanctuary and organize the many creatures living there. He left Prime Minister Turtle and three demons to manage the sanctuary, promising the demons their freedom in a thousand years.

• Prime Minister Turtle told Mu Chen that the sea beneath his sanctuary had attracted too many creatures seeking refuge from the Primordial World's violence.
• Mu Chen chose to let the creatures stay, prompted by a reward for showing compassion rather than driving them away.
• Prime Minister Turtle suggested establishing a sanctuary that charged residents who stayed for a thousand years, and Mu Chen named it the Endless Sea.
• Mu Chen ordered Prime Minister Turtle to erect boundary steles and manage the sanctuary, then assigned three demons to help him.
• The three demons accepted Mu Chen's orders, and he privately cringed at their grandiose titles.

Mu Chen named three demons and put them under Prime Minister Turtle to manage the Endless Sea, then crushed a rebellion by powerful creatures. With the waters subdued, he left their affairs to Prime Minister Turtle and turned his attention back to the Three Teachings' preaching of the Dao.

• Mu Chen named the three demons Tiger Venerable, Blood Eagle, and Turtle Two, and ordered them to help Prime Minister Turtle manage the Endless Sea.
• Prime Minister Turtle and the three demons announced the Endless Sea Daoist Sanctuary throughout the surrounding waters, prompting some powerful creatures to protest.
• Several great demons stirred up unrest and incited other races to resist, so Mu Chen killed them with heavenly lightning, fire, and meteors.
• Mu Chen left the waters' affairs in Prime Minister Turtle's hands and sent his avatar out to follow the Three Teachings' preaching of the Dao, expecting Yuanshi Tianzun to preach next.